“There has been an illegal search of his car,” said lawyer John Burke. “This search took place before a warrant was issued.”

Justice Albert Tomei shot down the mistrial bid but offered to suppress the evidence, a blue denim jacket that was found slung over the driver’s seat of Cameron’s 1991 Infiniti Q45 the morning officer Dillon Stewart was fatally shot in Brooklyn.

Burke instead opted to let jurors hear about the jacket, apparently hoping some would frown upon the police decision to grab it from the car.

“That jacket was taken from the car and moved, correct?” Burke asked Detective Joseph Noya.

“That’s what I was told,” Noya said. “I was told it was the canine officer.”

The obvious suggestion was that cops pulled the jacket from the car in the basement garage of an East 21st Street building, in hopes of putting a police dog on the scent.